But No Boycotts on Russia, China or Iran: The Staggering Hypocrisy of Starmer, Trudeau and Scholz
by Robert Williams • September 17, 2024 at 5:00 am
[T]he UK government announced that it is imposing an "immediate" weapons embargo against Israel. The statement followed almost a year of relentless attacks on Israel, not only by Iran's proxies -- Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis -- but by Iran itself, and probably several tons of unverified propaganda by Hamas that Israel is supposedly committing "war crimes."
Even South Africa is seeking to extend the deadline for presenting evidence against Israel at the International Court of Justice, for lack of evidence of its allegations of genocide. So far, all evidence points to Israel being "the world's most moral army." (here, here, here and here). Meanwhile, the same cannot be said for the entities attacking it.
The UK suspended "around 30 licences for items used in the current conflict in Gaza which go to the IDF, from a total of approximately 350 licences to Israel" allegedly because of Hamas-induced fear that they "might be used to commit or facilitate a serious violation of international humanitarian law." [emphasis added]
Hamas, on the other hand, continues to receive UK support: Although UNRWA has proven itself to be identical with Hamas, with roughly 10% of its members proven to have been terrorists or with ties to terror groups, and having used its entire Gaza infrastructure, including schools and hospitals, for the purpose of facilitating terror and missile attacks against Israel and its civilians....
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, in his announcement of the weapons embargo to the House of Commons, assured the British parliament that "this government's priority... [is] to advance the cause of peace" -- apparently because nothing spells peace more than emboldening terrorists.
The UK government worries about Red Cross access to terrorists who participated in the most gruesome crimes, while the blatant lack of interest on the part of the ICRC in the hostages did not even merit a mention by Lammy.
The UK's arms embargo appears to represent nothing so much as pure racist perfidy. Lammy completely ignores the extreme lengths to which Israel has gone to avoid civilian casualties, as well as the huge amounts of humanitarian aid it has facilitated into the Gaza strip...
Spain has also suspended arms export licenses to Israel since October 7. Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said the Gaza war "made us realize the importance of a fair and lasting solution" to the Palestinian issue. Fair and lasting, evidently, means siding with terrorists. It is particularly unbecoming of Spain, after 60 years of having combated the terrorist group ETA, to throw the first stone.
By contrast, Germany has massively armed Qatar, which, , alongside Iran, is the most significant backer of Hamas, and effectively every other Islamic terrorist group.
What will be the result of the embargoes? Western leaders claim to want de-escalation, but placing Israel under arms embargo only serves to strengthen and empower Qatar, Iran, and its terrorist proxies -- which in turn can lead only to further destabilizing the Middle East, particularly after the Iranian regime succeeds in completing its nuclear bomb.
On September 2, the day that Hersh Goldberg-Polin -- one of the six hostages recently murdered by Hamas -- was buried, the UK government announced that it is imposing an "immediate" weapons embargo against Israel. The statement followed almost a year of relentless attacks on Israel, not only by Iran's proxies -- Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis -- but by Iran itself, and probably several tons of unverified propaganda by Hamas that Israel is supposedly committing "war crimes."
Even South Africa is seeking to extend the deadline for presenting evidence against Israel at the International Court of Justice, for lack of evidence of its allegations of genocide. So far, all evidence points to Israel being "the world's most moral army." (here, here, here and here). Meanwhile, the same cannot be said for the entities attacking it.
